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  1. Deathwing

    Recommend me a local streaming/Netflix/xbmc solution

    If you're asking me, Crone, I think that's been resolved. Remote battery was indeed dying, it was just manifesting in the weirdest way. I would think it would just stop working, not register one button press as multiple. Boxee itself got a factory reset and an install of the BOXEE+HACKS...
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    Weight Loss Thread

    Suck your own dick. I love working out. Well, actually, I hate it. Because of the baby, I have to go after work and only on certain days. And because I don't need to lose anymore weight(160 lbs, 6'), I've stopped doing the elliptical and only lift weights for about 45 minutes, 3x a...
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    Time was not a problem. Remember they only let you play up to level 12(I think) and the Skeleton King? Beta could have lasted forever, Inferno was never getting tested. And this was never a "well, we never thought of it" thing. The previous douchebag in charge specifically said they didn't...
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    At least they're learning. D3 beta was pretty much useless.
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    Home buying thread

    I thought it was illegal to use money in escrow that way.
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    Weight Loss Thread

    Please don't boil your chicken.
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    Smartphones

    Mainly it's a decent FREE wifi calling service when paired with another, also free service(s). The important part is that it provides a DID(phone number). Most free services don't provide that or if they do, they'll likely charge for outbound.
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    Home buying thread

    Ok, that deals with how you divide shared costs. Perhaps you got lucky in regards to income. I make about 3x my wife, if we did the same, I think we would have split long ago. That doesn't explain the need to not explain your purchases to your wife. I know you've bitched about the cost of...
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    Investing

    Ever been unemployed Crazily? It's hard to accurately predict when that might happen. Or you can see it coming, but because you're tied to the area(family, rent lease, mortgage, whatever) or there's a lack of other prospects, there's nothing you can do about it. I think having a 3-6 months...
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    Weight Loss Thread

    My mistake, I'll rescind my comment about ketchup being (relatively) energy dense. I'm actually having trouble remembering the last thing I ate with ketchup. Still, other point remains.
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    Weight Loss Thread

    That wasn't McCheese's point. Ketchup has a high energy density and even if you don't eat that much of it, can be an easy place to cut calories without sacrificing taste.
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    2013 NFL Season

    ^^^It should come as no surprise that I got that link from an Easterbrook column on ESPN.com. Joeboo, you mentioned hotels. Easterbrook cites a specific example where Jacksonville is giving $40M to Shad Khan to refurbish his stadium. They are paying for it by taxing local hotels. The money...
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    Home buying thread

    Trust issue. It's not your money and her money. It's your, you and her, money. You totally should feel guilty about dropping a few hundred on a stupid purchase. Just because it came out of a separate account from your paycheck doesn't mean it's ok. How do you two agree to buy something...
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    2013 NFL Season

    Totally off topic. Also, didn't check if posted yet. I'm not much of an NFL fan. I checkup who wins online, read some stats and columns, but that's about it. I don't watch any of the games. This goes the same for about any sport besides college basketball(and I realize that's a tad...
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    Weight Loss Thread

    Uh, just about everything is fattening if you eat too much.
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    I'm not trying to whitewash Blizzard's mistakes with D3, but lets at least be accurate in our criticisms of them. 1.0.8 came out May 7th. I will say that the overwhelming majority of changes in RoS look good. The only one I'm mad about is that they seem to be backing off the idea of...
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    Parent Thread

    Unless you have lifestyles that demand you stay up late, why not adjust your sleep schedule instead? You don't have to get up when it's time to go to work. Our guy is 6 weeks old and instead of going to sleep when we want to, my wife goes to bed around 10 PM and I go to bed around 2 AM. Thus...
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    Home buying thread

    Did we have this discussion in another thread? I feel like we did. Married people with separate accounts, specifically so they can't see what you're buying, seems like a huge trust issue. She can still see that you're getting a new cell phone every year and doesn't need a bank account record...
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    What is your opinion on GMO plants and products?

    Then actually say something. We're going in circles because you're stuck on this thought that voting for third parties(non local) actually makes a difference. It doesn't. Our electoral system simply doesn't allow for it. You can't just brush it aside with some platitudes like "now's the time...
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    What is your opinion on GMO plants and products?

    How do you reconcile things like the 2000 Presidential election? Democrats voting third party in swing states basically won the election for Bush. I'm not going to argue which party is shittier because I agree with you that both parties suck, but in that specific instance, there's a clearly...
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    Weight Loss Thread

    Mind linking that 100 cal bbq sauce? That seems a little excessive, even for bbq sauce. Either way, you should be making your own. It's really easy. Most sauces are that don't require fermentation(soy sauce, Worcestershire, etc) or hours upon hours of boiling and a grove(maple).
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    What is your opinion on GMO plants and products?

    Are you missing the conversation I'm having with BrutulTM? Replacing elected officials(who aren't also beholden to corporate finance) is easier said than done. I'd really like for my vote to function that way, but it just doesn't work that way. There's some of what Pumpkin Thief is saying too.
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    What is your opinion on GMO plants and products?

    BrutulTM, it's not simply an attitude, it's the truth. The critical mass required for a third party to make a difference on the state or national level is too large the spontaneously jump start a movement. First past the pole(and various other factors like the electoral college) are the...
  24. Deathwing

    What is your opinion on GMO plants and products?

    Pontificating on the voting populace's ineptitude to not vote R or D doesn't actually fix the problem. You live in AZ right? How's voting third party working out for you? How many libertarians and green party have you sent to the House and Senate? And no, that's not just on them. That's...
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    What is your opinion on GMO plants and products?

    Corporations are people, my friend. If the law actually treated them as amoral entities, we'd probably have a lot less problems. Voting third party on the state and national level is throwing away your vote. Get rid of first past the post and I'll vote for third parties the whole damn ticket.
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    What is your opinion on GMO plants and products?

    Monsanto's list of shady deeds goes well beyond patent enforcement. Just a couple have already been listed in this thread. Basically sitting in on the FDA's upper layers. Getting a bill passed through Congress that tells the FDA to ignore court injunctions.
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    What is your opinion on GMO plants and products?

    The point is that Monsanto is evil because it knows what it's doing is ethically wrong, who cares if the government lets them? And then they further reinforce that decision by using their lobbying power to block government regulation of their fucked up actions. Lions just gonna lion.
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    HDTVs

    But edge lit LEDs are so thin!!!!
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    What tickles your pickle

    I understand the parent's good intentions with this, but I can't help but feeling they're going to wind up with the kids that are just a bit too old to still genuinely believe in Santa Claus. Or it will totally backfire and make them believe in Creationism. My wife and I are still debating...
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    What is your opinion on GMO plants and products?

    Done already: GMO, Monsanto, organic dreadlocked nonsense?
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Sausage, sauerkraut and...wine?
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    If welfare is cheaper than insurance, you should get rustled at the insurance, not people exercising the cheaper option.
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    A Song of Ice and Fire (Released Spoilers)

    Lots of new characters every book, characters coming back that haven't been around for 3+ books, character showing up with little to no backstory. That's Erikson's writing style. I wouldn't say they are one-off books. Every book is related to the overall plot of the Crippled God, it's just...
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    A Song of Ice and Fire (Released Spoilers)

    Don't click if you plan on reading the Malazan series:
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    Recommend a dating site

    u want sum fuk?
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    A Song of Ice and Fire (Released Spoilers)

    Yeah, that's pretty much what I meant with the Crippled God.
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    A Song of Ice and Fire (Released Spoilers)

    2 WPM at 8 hours a week is still ~100k words after 2 years...so scale it down a bit there. I do agree that Stannis and Tywin are better characters in the show. Stannis is more...relatable? Tywin is still a douchebag, just a better douchebag. I still don't see how GRRM is going to finish...
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    Restaraunt Review Thread

    If it was really chorizo, that's probably why it wasn't that great. Jambalaya should have andouille.
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    Storing large DVD collection

    It wasn't meant as an insult towards your intent, I was genuinely interested if anyone has broken down proceeds from sales and rentals. The pessimist in me says that very little goes to the people that actually deserve it. As for your thought that paying anything is better than torrenting...
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    All things Brandon Sanderson

    Why Agraza? I'll admit there are definitely some major flaws in his later works but there's still some good character development and story telling going on.